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| Menon : If the North Koreans do not respond to the inter-Korean talks by April 30, will you participate in the election?
Paikbum : Since the letter was sent in good faith and not as an ultimatum, the responding time is not a matter of question. Menon : Do you agree to participate in the election, given the current situation in South Korea? Paikbum : I am disappointed with your not keeping the promise to establish a unified government. Given the chaotic situation in your own country after the division to ‘Pakistan’, we cannot play a role in bringing a tragedy of people’s division caused by the separate election in the South. Menon : We are not holding this election to establish a sole separate government, but to use it as a leverage for the negotiation, therefore, it will consequently lead to the South-North meeting and further help establish the unified government. In that sense, you’d better participate in the election, don’t you? Paikbum : I don’t believe so. First, the UN, which cannot implement its resolutions because the Soviet Union is against it, cannot be trusted to unify the country in the future. If reunification can be achieved later, why can’t it be done now? And since preliminary work on the composition of the cabinet is reportedly already underway in various groups, I don’t think that holding this coming election in the South is not to use for only a leverage. There is a strong possibility that the inter-Korean talks after the establishment of the separate government will not be a meeting for reunification, but an international conference, which will make our reunification even more difficult. Menon : And what if the communist army of North Korea invades South Korea? Paikbum : If we use this as justification to expand armaments respectively, we will end up with a U.S.-Soviet outpost that will be nothing more than a fratricidal war filled with bloodshed. It will be a total harm in achieving the independent reunification without a single piece of positive effect. Menon : If you don’t participate in the election, don’t you think that a certain party will dominantly control power? Paikbum : I am arguing for justice, not for holding power. I will support any party if its line is truly patriotic and productive. |
